The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-05
WORK AND WORKERS.

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| Philadelphia Record.
The Chicago building trades strike cost S.
| 50O, 600 in lost wages
/ Elizabeth N j., has twenty- three locals with
membership of 5. 900.
| The Journeymen Tailors' National Union will
meet in New York on Aug s.
| There are 5000 white and colored knights in
! and around Birmingham, Ala.
The Worcester county, Massachusetts, shoe
makers strike lasted five months
| The annual convention of the Socialistic Labor
party will convene in Buffalo in September.
The New Hampshire Knights nave formulated
their demands to be presented to the Legisla-
ture.
The Kentucky Knights propose to poll from
State.
During June 10, 900 men struck, against 7s,6Is
men in May and against 16. 900 for same month
last year.
The International Brick-layers' Union has 1872
| subordinate unions. Eighteen have been added
since Jan. l.
Boston people are favorable to apartment
houses, and contractors are busy on a large num-
Der of them.
The coke-workers lost in wages up 10 June %,
$69s. 800. The decreased output of coke was
153, 600 tons.
The English government has given out
tract for 150, 900 sword bayoners TO be less than
one pound each in weight.
Because of the inability of many of the Massa-
chusetts boot and shoemakers to obtain work
urgent calls are out for money.
The new water supply of New York city will
be 32O, 600, 900 gallons daily, which will the
increasing manufacturing requirements.
The Hudson River Pulp and Paper Company
will erect $500. 900 paper mill at Corntb, n Y.
The paper makers are very busy everywhere.
During the first half of 1886 $63 Gil 500 were
invested in the fourteen Southern States For
the first half of 1887 the amountwas $751; 1872 900.
The largest local electric-light company in the
United States is at Boston. In New Orleans
contracts have been made for 3, 900 Brush lights.
1t is alleged by labor leaders that 40, 600 per-
have been permitted to land in twelve
months in violation of the law against contract
labor.
The directors OF the Pacific railway met and
have ordered the immediate construction of
large mill to roll the largest sizes of iron and
steel beams.
There are or were seven district assemblies in
and around New York city which had a mem
bership last fall of 1852. The membership is
&C, 900.
Seven or eight New England manufacturing
corporations have passed resolutions to invest
some money in building houses sell or to rent
to Employees.
A popularity of Western building activity is
the large number of permits being taken out for
school houses, churches and educational institu-
tions of one kind or another
Two thousand French Canadians are on the
verge of starvation in Manville, r. l.. on account
of low wages for months, which has ended up by
George E. McNeill, of Boston, says a stunning
blow has been dealt the present form of organ
lied labor. The number of men in the Knights
who have something to make out of 1t is increas-
ing.
OF the 20, O51 prisoners in Prussia Il, 636 or 70
per cent, farmed out They mostly en-
gagged in the manufacturing industries. The
government gets from to II cents per day
head.
There are 1000. 900 men engaged in the build
ing trades of the United States, and while
spending their lives putting roofs other
men s heads not one in ten owns the roof over
his own.
A great deal of textile machinery has been
contracted for during the second quarter of the
year for New England and Southern mills, and
the textile neutrality-suspicious. hereabouts are
very busy.
The New England manufacturers of cotton
goods count up their six months profits at 10 per
cent. more than last year, and think they see
business enough to keep every loom busy until
the holidays.
The maintenance of efficient organization
among the girls of New York has been difficult,
fits that have accrued. The organizers are hold
ing the membership together.
The windows lass-workers prescribe how
much glass shall be made at each trade centre
in America England and Belgium. Employees
paid not less than $500 per year for eight
hours daily labor ten months in the year.
Krupp is making 139-ton gun to be fifty-two
feet long, 153 inches calibre to fire shot weighing
1000 to 2.314 pounds. The charge will be LOGO
pounds prismatic powder. These shot will 60
through forty-ive inches of iron plate. He will
make another gun to fire shot that will weigh
a ton and half
Boston used $4,000 tons Of anthracite coal
last year; Providence. 430, 900 tons; Fall River,
10000 tons; New Haven, 900 tons. The
coal producers In the bituminous regions
making up for lost time In new regions alone
the gain SO far this year over the first half of
last year is ], SOC, 900 tons.
The German cutlery and hardware manu- |
Yankees by putting American names, three hun
dred in all, on their inferior and low-priced cut
1ery, with which they invade English and con- |
tinental markets, to the surprise and disgust of
the American cutlery-maker.
There are rumors in railroad circles that the |
orders for locomotive engines that will be prob !
ably placed this fall will equal in number the |
amount ordered during the past twelve months. |
Machinery makers are crowded with orders for |
machines, and power, and tools, to 60 into the |
new Southern and Western railroad shops.
The New England boot and shoemakers have |
indications that the coming fall and winter will |
be the busiest seasons they have had. |
During the late Massachusetts strike a num-
Der of the weaker manufacturers laid plans to
get out of the reach of unions. but the stronger |
concerns are now raising the cry. "Stand to-
gether."
Western cities outside of Chicago show that the |
season will be very busy one all through. and
that building material will be firm in price. ex-
cept nails. Real estate speculation has fallen off
under the offerings of great deal of property, |
owners of which were more anxious for cash |
than for land.
This years railroad construction, according to
present indications. will reach II 900 miles of.
main track. There 200 900 miles of track in
the world. Last year the average of haul
railroads in the United States was twenty three
miles per head. Seven tons of freight were car
ried per head of population. Pennsylvania is
second on the list in passenger transportation.
The New York sllversmiths have been badly
beaten The brick-layers and masons have all
they can do. Four hundred of the Delamater
founders strike for the reinstatement Of
three discharged men. The Brooklyn Carpen-
ters' Union will order strikes on all ten hour
work. The Central Labor Union disciplined the
Jewish peddlers for having work done in a rat
Office
In labor quarters there is some little chagrin
over the rather frequent strike failures Com